From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 21915eca088dc271c970e8351290e83d938114ac ] build_initial_tok_table() overwrites unused sym_entry to shrink the table size. Before the entry is overwritten, table[i].sym must be freed since it is malloc'ed data. This fixes the 'definitely lost' report from valgrind. I ran valgrind against x86_64_defconfig of v5.4-rc8 kernel, and here is the summary: [Before the fix] LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 53,184 bytes in 2,874 blocks [After the fix] LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kallsyms.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index ae6504d07fd6..fb15f09e0e38 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -489,6 +489,8 @@ static void build_initial_tok_table(void) table[pos] = table[i]; learn_symbol(table[pos].sym, table[pos].len); pos++; + } else { + free(table[i].sym); } } table_cnt = pos; -- 2.20.1